Elder Murray New York New York
6/22/2016-07/11/2018
The New York Times... but better 😉 This week was awesome! We had zone conference which was great! I was invited to conduct it which was super scary at first but then I realized that everyone there is awesome and I love them all. All of my companions in the mission were there except for Elder Lusk and of course the people that finished their missions. JUST a little update on Elder Lusk! He is killing it! Every time I see President He tells me Elder Lusk is on fire! He is actually serving in my first area! Lincoln Square YSA! Such a great ward.
So anyway zone conference! We talked about Joseph Smith a lot at this meeting and it was so cool. We sang praise to the man, we read and discussed the first vision and just counseled toger. Each time we talked about God the Father and Jesus Christ coming and restoring the gospel through the Prophet I felt the tingling of the spirit. It was a powerful testimony builder for me. It really just shows that God is our loving father in heaven! He has a plan for us! Before this event took place the plan of salvation wasn't looking too good. We were at a halt. So God, with his son our savior, restored the keys of the priesthood keys! We are so blessed. We also talked about the mission goal we have set right now. President was inspired to set a mission goal of 50 baptisms a month for three consecutive months. It is awesome! Please pray for us to achieve this goal! Elder Peterson and I conducted leadership meeting on Monday and discussed our goals as a zone. We set a goal as a zone to get 15 people at church each week for 3 consecutive weeks and build on It. We k ow that as we get investigators to church It get the members excited and then they want to do missionary work which speeds up the work by ten fold easily! It went really well and we all left with an excitement to achieve these inspired goals! After that Elder Peterson and I went to Elder Tatafu's district meeting. I was with him when he got called to be a district leader and he was pretty scared. Well his district meeting was awesome! Super well organized and the district was participating and everything! The Tyrells are a senior couple in their district and they are the coolest! After district meeting we asked the Middletown elders if we could do anything for them. Their area is really big so they asked if we could do a look up for them on our way back to our area because we only get a limited amount of miles and they didn't want to waste any. So we go and do a few look ups for them and it was sweet! We knocked on a door and this girl named Brittany opened the door and started to talk to us and how her dad is a Mormon but doesn't go to the Mormon church any more. Well we taught her the entire restoration and invited her to baptism on the porch. She said yes! We set up a return appointment for the other elders to go teach her! We then went next door and tracted her next door neighbor's house. Same thing. His name was Sam and we taught him the whole restoration extended a baptismal invitation and he said yes too! Holy moly it was such a cool experience! People are prepared out there! Oh I forgot to tell y'all that Elder Kirkham is in my district now! He is a solid guy. He is the Kleinmans cousin. I got to go on exchanges with his companion and Elder Peterson went on splits with Elder Kirkham. Elder West and I went to Newburgh and Elders Kirkham and Peterson stayed at West Point. Elder West and I had such a cool miracle happen! Elder Kirkham and Elder West received revelation that they needed to have a baptism on the 2nd of September to build their ward. So on the split we set a goal to set a baptismal date for September 2nd while we were there together. So we had pretty much every appointment cancel on us that whole day. We had our last appointment at 8. They were bible referrals. We got there and probably taught one of the most powerful lessons on the restoration I ever have. We had never taught together before but the spirit was so present and made it so much better! We invited them to baptism and as soon as we said September 2nd she started crying and she said that is her Sisters Birthday! She and her sister were really close and her sister has passed away. The spirit is so real! Elder Kirkham and Elder West were inspired! They committed to be baptized on September 2nd! Last but not least! We had the coolest family history training yesterday. So cool! I finally understand the why behind temple and family history work. So God has a plan for every single one of us. Well his plan cannot be accomplished without us doing temple and family history work. Moses 1:39 says "For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." This cannot be done without each and every child of God receiving their temple ordinances! Immortality is much different than immortality and eternal life. ALL of us will be resurrected and be immortal but eternal life is living with God and our savior Jesus Christ. Each dispensation has had its purpose and was fulfilled. This is our dispensation. We have been given keys to fulfill it. We need to fulfill it! If we don't Ephesians 1:10-11 says: "That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him..." then in D&C 2:2-3 it says: "2 And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers. 3 If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming." So what I learned from this is that we need to do temple and family history work! The purpose of this dispensation is to gather Israel. So yeah! I have a testimony of that now! I love you all! I hope you have a fantastic week!
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